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Dubai eGovernment and Zakat Fund to launch first electronic Zakat payment channel |
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9/27/2006 8:02:16 AM |
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 Dubai eGovernment today (Tuesday, September 26, 2006), announced at a press conference that it has partnered with Abu Dhabi-based Zakat Fund to launch the first electronic Zakat payment channel through its ePay service. Zakat payments can now be made by logging on to www.zakatfund.ae. Zakat is the amount of money that every adult Muslim who is mentally stable and financially able should pay annually to support the poor and needy.
The launch of this electronic payment channel during the Holy Month of Ramadan will facilitate easy payment of Zakat for people, as it allows payment through Visa, MasterCard and American Express credit cards. This novel initiative is being supported by Dubai Commercial Bank.
Speaking at the press conference, Salem Al Shair, eServices Director, Dubai eGovernment, said, “The introduction of the Zakat payment service marks another important value addition to Dubai eGovernment’s services. In today’s technology-reliant age, an ever-increasing number of people are using the power of the internet to avail a host of services, and Dubai eGovernment which has been constantly promoting the use of eServices in Dubai sees this as another opportunity to extend the scope of electronic services. We are thankful to Zakat Fund for their cooperation and support in this initiative.”
Abdullah Ogeida Al Muheiri, General Secretary of Zakat Fund said, “We are glad to partner with Dubai eGovernment to launch this service in the Holy Month of Ramadan when most people will be making their Zakat payments. Now people can make their payments from anywhere and anytime by just logging on www.zakatfund.ae. All the money collected will be transferred to the Zakat Fund account.”
ePay is a highly secure, online payment service that allows registered users to pay for public utilities and fines using either the eDirham card issued by the UAE Ministry of Finance and Industry, or a credit card.
Dubai eGovernment is a pioneering initiative in the region to provide online services across the spectrum of corporate and community life in the emirate. It also has a vision to integrate individually automated government departments under the single umbrella of the eGovernment initiative, thus empowering employees across lines of businesses and levels of government, besides facilitating the lives of citizens and customers of the government. Dubai has taken a lead in the region in deploying eGovernment applications and is among the first few governments in the world to provide such integrated services to its citizens. The eGovernment portal (http://mobile.dubai.ae) is a single contact point masking the complexity of the bureaucratic procedures, and guiding access to all services in the easiest possible way. In addition, the eGovernment initiative seeks to improve and enhance procedures by maximizing the benefit from technology, so that users from all walks of life will be able to utilize the portal for their specific needs with considerable ease.
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